William McKinley

To be sure, presidents such as William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson had strengthened the office, giving the executive a stronger role in initiating legislation, managing the press, and establishing budgets.

Bruce Schulman: What Ever Happened to the Veto? 2008

I therefore preferred the nomination of a new man, such as William McKinley, but he had committed himself to Harrison, and, according to my code of honor, could not accept a nomination if tendered him.

Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. John Sherman

In the first of his three presidential losses, the 1896 election won by William McKinley, "the Democratic Party was born again as a progressive party after a century of conservatism," Mr. Farris relates.

Influence Instead of Victory Robert K. Landers 2011

I spin the dial looking for “Back Home Again in Indiana,” the song that nearly drove William McKinley—my college jazz instructor—not the president, mad when he played piano in a pizza parlor in Indiana and patrons would ask him to play the unofficial state song over . . . and over . . . and over again.

Me and Ezra Pound, Back Home Again in Indiana Con Chapman 2012

Agents would not be assigned to protect the president until after William McKinley's assassination in 1901.

Presidential Malpractice Fergus M. Bordewich 2011

Dunne, like the best columnists, remained a sharp reporter as well as an opinionator -- and scooped all his colleagues with the news from a most reliable source, the horse's mouth that Roosevelt was going to run as vice president to William McKinley.

David Tereshchuk: Celebrating a Virtually Forgotten Media Maestro David Tereshchuk 2011

He began a series of paintings about Abraham Lincoln a decade ago, shortly after he bought an 1873 home called Cordts Mansion in Kingston, N.Y., where former presidents, including William McKinley, visited.

An Oddball Menagerie Kelly Crow 2011

The most famous smoke-filled room pick was William McKinley, anointed for the 1896 election by Ohio kingmaker Mark Hanna though in fact Hanna got McKinley nominated over the opposition of GOP party bosses.

Bring Back the Smoke-Filled Rooms? Daniel Henninger 2011

Republican candidate William McKinley favored "sound money," which meant remaining on the gold standard without a devaluation.

A Return To Basics: What Is Stable Money? 2011

Dunne, like the best columnists, remained a sharp reporter as well as an opinionator -- and scooped all his colleagues with the news from a most reliable source, the horse's mouth that Roosevelt was going to run as vice president to William McKinley.

David Tereshchuk: Celebrating a Virtually Forgotten Media Maestro David Tereshchuk 2011